Tag: Isaiah Colliler

USC basketball wins major recruitment battle, sets the stage for program-changing moment

#USC and Andy Enfield landed a 4-star big man. That’s obviously huge … but the other part of this story is that it could lead to a far bigger recruiting win.

This is not hyperbole. This is not exaggeration. This is not embellishment. USC basketball has set itself up for a true program-changing moment. The Trojans need to win high-end recruiting battles and give themselves the pieces needed to compete for Final Fours, not just Sweet 16s.

USC has landed one very good recruit, which is a great thing in and of itself, but the real story behind the successful pull of four-star big man Arrinten Page is that it puts the Trojans in position to land the really big fish on the recruiting trail, the guy Andy Enfield has coveted as the centerpiece of his 2023 recruiting class and his push to make USC a national contender next season.

We will break down that story below:

USC is viewed as one of two finalists for game-changing 5-star point guard

Isaiah Collier would be a huge recruit for #USC and Andy Enfield. The Trojans are locked in a battle with one other school. We could get news by early October.

We interrupt our coverage of Lincoln Riley’s first football season at USC to bring you a very important piece of basketball recruiting news.

We could soon get an announcement date and then a revelation of one top recruit’s choice for the 2023 class.

Isaiah Collier, a top-five 2023 national recruit in the eyes of nearly every recruiting service, is an elite high school player. More than that, however, he is a point guard.

USC basketball fans can tell you, as can we: The Trojans desperately need an equation-changing point guard if they really and truly want to become a Final Four-level program which gets high NCAA Tournament seeds and can regularly make the second weekend of the Big Dance every March.

It might seem like empty bluster or knee-jerk embellishment to call any recruit a game-changer. No, Collier truly would be a game-changer. That’s not hyperbole or lazy, hype-driven salesmanship. Give USC a point guard surrounding all the defensive length Andy Enfield puts on a court. That’s the missing piece, folks. USC has been looking for a special point guard since Jordan McLaughlin left the program to become a valuable NBA player.

There’s a lot to tell you about Collier’s recruitment: